Illinois Tech In the News

“It’s a collective action problem,” explains Martin Malin. “It’s a rational decision ― even for someone who wants to be represented in collective bargaining ― to not become a member, because their dues won't make any [noticeable] difference, and the benefits of collective bargaining are collective goods.”

Hayley Perelman, a fourth-year doctoral student in clinical psychology at Illinois Tech, discussed her own personal transition from swimming to psychology and the current state of mental health issues that are affecting college athletes during and after their tenure.

"eDiscovery retrospectively was the first thing through the wall. If you said we need to review 10 million emails, just as an example, the existing business model and economics around that weren’t rational. It was a problem created by and solved through technology," says Daniel Martin Katz.

Richard Gonzalez and Mariana Karampelas (LAW '11), a graduate of Chicago-Kent's Solo and Small-Practice Incubator Program, spoke to the Chicago Tribune about a cat custody dispute between an artist and a pet shelter.

Shlomo Argamon says recent claims that researchers cracked the 600-year-old code in the Voynich manuscript are “perhaps slightly questionable, but not more so than many other results often published in the scientific literature.”

"While this case doesn’t go as far as overruling some bad precedent about sexual orientation claims, it cracks open the door in a way that’s important," Anthony Michael Kreis says in a Bloomberg Law article about the First Circuit's ruling in Franchina v. City of Providence.

Lewis College of Human Sciences will host the second of three spring semester professional development workshops on Monday, February 26 from 12:45–1:45 p.m. in the Lewis College Dean’s Conference Room.

Due to its popularity, the Financial Systems for Managers training program on Wednesday, February 21 from 9:30 a.m.–noon has been moved to a larger space in the Galvin Center on the 16th floor of IIT Tower.